Photobucket no longer supporting 3rd party hosting

[The_Hawk]

Attempting to keep the dream alive...

Has anyone found a site wide solution that allows forum owners to grab the photobucket images? Like many forums we have had a long history of using sites like Photobucket for image hosting since it was usually easier (and better) than the pretty poor image hosting built into vBulletin.

Originally Posted by Paul M

This might do what you want:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=253309

I have now implemented this little plugin (and excluded photobucket for now), something that has been on the radar for a year and sadly I hadn't yet done.

Interestingly, 60% of images from 2005 - 2011 are now dead links vs less than 30% of post 2011 links. None of that that is surprising but highlights the real benefits in using something like this if you can afford the storage space and bandwidth.

I did post this in that other thread but will put it over here as well in the hopes that someone smarter than me can implement this type of work around.

This plugin for chrome appears to work on the user side to get around the problem. I do wonder if this sort of thing could be implemented on the serverside to allow the external image grabber to do it's thing. Even if it only works temporarily it would allow me to grab the images while I can and host them locally.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...alioapbifiaedg